CVE-2022-23708

2022-03-0321:48:14

CWE-264

elastic

www.cve.org

4.7 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

22.7%

JSON

A flaw was discovered in Elasticsearch 7.17.0’s upgrade assistant, in which upgrading from version 6.x to 7.x would disable the in-built protections on the security index, allowing authenticated users with “*” index permissions access to this index.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "elasticsearch",
    "vendor": "Elastic",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "Versions 7.16.0 through 7.17.0"
      }
    ]
  }
]